19 A2+ dangerous and dirty jobs

CHAPTER 1 Terrible Jobs? WHAT ARE SOME JOBS YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO? Some people do jobs that most of us wouldn't like jobs that are dirty, hard, dangerous, or boring. These jobs are often important, but that doesn't mean they're pleasant to do. Who thinks, "I want to be a garbage collector"? But we really need garbage collectors. People in Naples, Italy, learned that the hard way. Garbage workers there decided to strike in December 2007. By May 2008, there were 200 million kilograms of garbage on the streets!

第一章可怕的工作？哪些工作是你最不想做的？ 有些人从事我们大多数人都不喜欢的工作——肮脏、艰苦、危险或无聊的工作。 这些工作通常很重要，但这并不意味着它们做起来很愉快。 谁会想，“我想成为一名垃圾收集者”？ 但是我们真的需要垃圾收集器。 意大利那不勒斯的人们吸取了教训。 2007年12月，垃圾工人决定举行罢工。 到2008年5月，街道上有2亿公斤垃圾！

And what about sewer workers? Many of us think that must be a horrible job. But the sewers under a city take away dirty water and body waste. They make city life possible. We really need sewers to work, so we really need sewer workers! Other jobs might be dirty and dangerous. Firefighters can be burned in fires or have to clean up dangerous chemicals after an accident. Very often, people who do dirty and dangerous jobs don't earn a lot of money. But sometimes the dirty or dangerous parts are also what make the job interesting! So what do you want from a job? Does it have to be interesting? Well paid? Safe? Clean? Maybe you want your job to be all those things. If so, you probably don't want any of the jobs we're going to look at here. But at the end of the book, you'll have to choose the one you prefer. So think about each job as you read.

那下水道工人呢？ 我们中的许多人认为那一定是一份可怕的工作。 但是城市下面的下水道会带走脏水和人体排泄物。 它们使城市生活成为可能。 我们真的需要下水道工作，所以我们真的需要下水道工人！其他的工作可能又脏又危险。 消防员可能在火灾中被烧伤，或者在事故发生后清理危险化学品。 通常，从事肮脏和危险工作的人挣不了多少钱。 但有时肮脏或危险的部分也使这项工作有趣！你想从工作中得到什么？ 一定要有趣吗？ 支付?安全吗?干净吗?也许你希望你的工作是所有这些。 如果是这样，你可能不想要我们在这里看到的任何一份工作。 但在书的最后，你必须选择一个你喜欢的。 所以在阅读的时候想想每一份工作。

CHAPTER 2 Fish Gutter DO YOU LIKE FISH? MAYBE YOU WON'T AFTER DOING THIS JOB! How would you like to spend your time gutting fish— cleaning out their insides? Fish are very smelly, and after work, you'll smell bad, too! Every day, boats bring thousands of fish to a factory in Dillingham, Alaska. Students from all over the world come there to work. There are many different nationalities and they speak a lot of different languages. Mache Kazubovsky is a student from Poland. He paid a company $3,000 to find him the job here. He hopes to make $6,000 and travel across America. The factory doesn't pay much for an hour's work, so he works 16 hours a day.

第二章鱼沟你喜欢鱼吗？ 也许你做了这份工作就不会了！你愿意把时间花在给鱼开膛破肚——清理它们的内脏上吗？ 鱼很臭，下班后，你也会很臭！每天，船只把成千上万条鱼运到阿拉斯加迪林厄姆的一家工厂。 来自世界各地的学生来这里工作。 有许多不同的民族，他们说很多不同的语言。 Mache Kazubovsky是一名来自波兰的学生。 他付给一家公司000英镑，让他在这里找到工作。 他希望能赚到5000美元，并周游美国。 工厂每小时的工资不多，所以他一天工作16个小时。

Hoy-Juhw is from China. She's studying to be a teacher. She likes to travel, too. "I want to see New York and Washington, the most famous cities," she explains. Nancy Blakey owns the factory. She's very pleased with her foreign students. She says they're smart and work hard. Brad Gillespy isn't so pleased. He works for the Alaskan government and wants Nancy to give more jobs to locals— people who live in the area. Nancy says that local people don't want to do this work. Maybe the factory doesn't pay enough. Long hours, low pay, taking out fish guts that stink and look horrible... Is this a job you might want to do?

hey - juhw来自中国。她正在学习成为一名教师。 她也喜欢旅游。“我想去看看纽约和华盛顿，这两个最著名的城市，”她解释说。 Nancy Blakey是这家工厂的老板。 她对她的外国学生很满意。 她说他们很聪明，工作也很努力。 布拉德·吉莱斯皮可不太高兴。 他在阿拉斯加政府工作，希望南希给当地居民提供更多的就业机会。 南希说当地人不想做这项工作。 也许工厂付的钱不够。 工作时间长，工资低，取出的鱼内脏又臭又难看…… 这是你想做的工作吗？

CHAPTER 3 Zoo Keeper WORKING WITH ANIMALS IS A GREAT JOB, RIGHT? WELL, NOT ALWAYS. Do you think zoo keepers feed elephants and play with monkeys all the time? Think again. Neil Dretzka and Chris John work with the big cats (lions, tigers, and others) at Milwaukee County Zoo, USA. They begin their day by checking that no animals have gotten in from outside, or out from inside. "A truck could break a big window and a tiger could get out," explains Neil. After that, the job gets dirtier for Neil and Chris. Neil has to clean the tiger enclosure. He picks up hair, food, and body waste. Tigers eat meat, so their waste is very smelly! He also looks for uneaten meat or for blood that may show an animal is sick.

第三章动物园管理员和动物一起工作是一份很棒的工作，对吗？ 嗯，不总是这样。你认为动物园管理员总是喂大象和猴子玩吗？ 再想想。尼尔·德雷兹卡和克里斯·约翰在美国密尔沃基县动物园与大型猫科动物（狮子、老虎和其他动物）一起工作。 他们每天开始检查是否有动物从外面进来或从里面出来。 “一辆卡车可以打破一扇大窗户，一只老虎可以出来，”尼尔解释说。 在那之后，尼尔和克里斯的工作变得更加棘手。 尼尔要打扫老虎的圈地。 他收集头发、食物和身体排泄物。 老虎吃肉，所以它们的排泄物很臭！他还寻找未吃过的肉或可能表明动物生病的血。

Lastly, Neil washes the floor and picks up a large, dirty hairball. It's no surprise that he always wears gloves! During this time, Chris looks at the animals' food. He checks 30 kilos of cold, bloody meat. "When the food's prepared," he says, "things can get in it. One time, I found a dangerous piece of broken plastic." The keepers also help the veterinarians— doctors who look after the animals. Like hospital nurses, they see and smell some very unpleasant things. It can be dangerous to be a zoo keeper, too. In 2012, a tiger killed a worker at the Cologne Zoo, in Germany. And at the Pittsburgh Zoo, in the USA, a worker was killed by an elephant. Do you still want to be a zoo keeper?

最后，尼尔洗地板，捡起一个又大又脏的毛球。 他总是戴手套，这并不奇怪！在这段时间里，克里斯看着动物们的食物。 他检查了30公斤又冷又血的肉。 “当食物准备好了，”他说，“东西可能会进去。 有一次，我发现了一块危险的塑料碎片。” 饲养员也帮助兽医——照顾动物的医生。 就像医院的护士一样，他们看到和闻到了一些非常令人不快的东西。 动物园管理员也可能很危险。 2012年，一只老虎杀死了德国科隆动物园的一名工作人员。 在美国匹兹堡动物园，一名工作人员被大象杀死。 你还想当动物园管理员吗？